Love is... (Explicit) - Common
Lyrics by：Lonnie Lynn/James Yancey/Anna Gaye/Marvin Gaye/James Nyx/Elgie Stover
Composed by：Lonnie Lynn/James Yancey/Anna Gaye/Marvin Gaye/James Nyx/Elgie Stover
Produced by：Dilla
Yeah
Yeah
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
Yeah
It's a place I got to be
Loving you is loving me
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
Gotta reach that frequency
Loving you is loving me
Yeah you know what love is
Even found it on the ground
Where the thugs live
My man had to dig deep to find his
Couldn't sleep 'cause on the real
He had five kids
Live league real niggas express and taste it
At crap games
Black dames and big faces
Cases in court
Fam' showing love and support
You and your baby's mom thought
That love was a sport
As men we were taught to hold it in
That's why we don't know
How 'til we're older men
If love is a place I'ma go again
At least now now I know to go within
At times it can take ya for a spin
Heartbreak hotel then you're home again
I've seen love make a nigga soul pretend
Like a story that he don't want to end yo
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
It's a place I got to be
Loving you is loving me
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
Gotta reach that frequency
Loving you is loving me
It's all love where we come from
In the hood love we was told to run from
That same hood where the guns sung
We holla love hoping it'd become one
Crack got so many lives undone
From lack of love many hide some run
I knew this girl with a son
Who dreamt of acting in plays
Demonstration with her man
Had her trapped in a maze
Trying to find herself again
Much of that she'd have gave
Love can free us to it
Some of us react as a slave
Funny we love 'em more
When they're relaxed in a grave
Wonder if a thug is raw
Is he actin' afraid?
Everybody loves sun
Why do I attract shade?
Heard of the love of money
But compassion it pays
Talk about it with my youth
So she'd understand
What it is to be loved by a man
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
Yeah
It's a place I got to be
Loving you is loving me
Okay
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
Gotta reach that frequency
Loving you is loving me
Some say that I'm a dreamer
'Cause I talk about it often
Seen the hardest nigga soften wit'
His homie in a coffin
We walk and stand in
Fall in it
Fall in it
With the right companion
We all in it
Mary sang a song about it
Having broad limits
In the game of life
It's the scrimmage
Reminiscing on letters
I wrote in my small days
A letter to the people
Love always yeah
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
It's a place I got to be
Loving you is loving me
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
Gotta reach that frequency
Loving you is loving me
